May 22, 2012
Left, photograph by Mustafa Sabbagh. Via. And more via his Tumblr. Right, photograph by Nobuyoshi Araki. Via.
More TV screens.
See also, Mustafa Sabbagh x Leonora Carrington.
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Sous ce masque un autre masque. Je n’en finirai pas de soulever tous ces visages.
Claude Cahun. Via.

Left, photograph by Mustafa SabbaghVia. And more via his Tumblr. Right, photograph by Nobuyoshi Araki. Via.

More TV screens.

See also, Mustafa Sabbagh x Leonora Carrington.

Sous ce masque un autre masque. Je n’en finirai pas de soulever tous ces visages.

Claude Cahun. Via.

Just Friends (Nicolas Jaar & Sasha Spielberg), Avalanche, 2012.

This track appeared on the uneven but at times pretty fabulous (like this excerpt where Angelo Badalamenti talks about Twin Peaks) BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix from last week. From the forthcoming album but not really The Prism, 2012. Via.

Gray-haired, executive-type men in well-starched suits wander through, surveying the exhibition like they’re kicking the tires on a brand new Mercedes. Clichés manifest, clutter, recede, repeat; tautology rules. “That’s a motorcycle in a pool,” proclaims one exec, pointing to a motorcycle in a pool. (…) “Oh yeah. I like him . . . ” Franco begins, but their interview is interrupted by a blonde starlet with unlatched eyes and an available smile.

Andrew Berardini, Los Angeles Plays Itself, for Art Forum, May 2012.

May 19, 2012
Left, photograph by Brea Souders, Mille-Fleurs, from the series Counterforms. Via. Bottom, photograph by Nico Krijno, Honey, 2012. Via.

Left, photograph by Brea Souders, Mille-Fleurs, from the series Counterforms. Via. Bottom, photograph by Nico Krijno, Honey, 2012. Via.

Left, photograph by Emma Arvida Bystrom, from the series There Will Be Blood, for Vice Magazine, May 2012. Via. Right, scan of a page from the book Kodachrome, by Luigi Ghirri,  published by Punto e Virgola, 1978. Via. More spreads here.
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In Arab popular traditions, there’s a belief that if a manuscript were to be submerged in water and its ink were to dissolve, drinking the water would transform the knowledge contained in that manuscript into the body of the drinker and become part of the body’s system.
Anton Shammas, The Drowned Library. Via.

Left, photograph by Emma Arvida Bystrom, from the series There Will Be Blood, for Vice Magazine, May 2012. Via. Right, scan of a page from the book Kodachrome, by Luigi Ghirri,  published by Punto e Virgola, 1978. Via. More spreads here.

In Arab popular traditions, there’s a belief that if a manuscript were to be submerged in water and its ink were to dissolve, drinking the water would transform the knowledge contained in that manuscript into the body of the drinker and become part of the body’s system.

Anton Shammas, The Drowned Library. Via.

Music video for Namosh, Cold Cream, 2005, directed by Daniel Steiner & Nic Romm.

Summer now.

May 18, 2012
Me, shot by Ferdinand inside one of Thomas Zipp’s chambers, currently on view at at Galerie Guido W. Baudach until June 7th.
See also, photo booth self portrait au zenit, 2010.

Me, shot by Ferdinand inside one of Thomas Zipp’s chambers, currently on view at at Galerie Guido W. Baudach until June 7th.

See also, photo booth self portrait au zenit, 2010.

Top, photograph by Carrie Schneider, Burning House (October, afternoon), from the series Burning House, 2011, C-print, 40 x 50 inches. Via. Over the course of 2 years, Schneider built 15 small houses, burning them on an island in a Wisconsin lake in different seasons and at different times of day. Bottom, screen capture from Passion, 1982, directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Via.
See also, Andrei Tarkovsky, The Sacrifice, 1986 x Rei Nadal for SHOWstudio.
I woke up from a dream where I was driving through houses on fire, here in Berlin. See also, Ghosts (After the Fire 1), and Ghosts (After the Fire 2).

Top, photograph by Carrie Schneider, Burning House (October, afternoon), from the series Burning House, 2011, C-print, 40 x 50 inches. Via. Over the course of 2 years, Schneider built 15 small houses, burning them on an island in a Wisconsin lake in different seasons and at different times of day. Bottom, screen capture from Passion, 1982, directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Via.

See also, Andrei Tarkovsky, The Sacrifice, 1986 x Rei Nadal for SHOWstudio.

I woke up from a dream where I was driving through houses on fire, here in Berlin. See also, Ghosts (After the Fire 1), and Ghosts (After the Fire 2).

“She had considered, station to station, what they might leave in the car.”
Collaboration with Melissa Gira Grant for Abe’s Penny, Card 2/4. See large.

“She had considered, station to station, what they might leave in the car.”

Collaboration with Melissa Gira Grant for Abe’s Penny, Card 2/4. See large.

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Trentemøller, Blue Hotel (Feat. Marie Fisker/Steen Jorgensen), 2011. Written by Chris Isaak, 1986.

Photograph by Brea Souders, Untitled #7 - dream fragment, Marquis de Sade, from the series Islands & Streams.
See also, Kim Novak VS Catherine Deneuve.
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“How do you have the nerve to write some of the things you do?” I asked him. “Oh, it’s easy. I just pretend that I’m already dead.”
Michel Houellebecq, interviewed by Susannah Hunnewell for The Paris Review, 2010.

Photograph by Brea Souders, Untitled #7 - dream fragment, Marquis de Sade, from the series Islands & Streams.

See also, Kim Novak VS Catherine Deneuve.

“How do you have the nerve to write some of the things you do?” I asked him. “Oh, it’s easy. I just pretend that I’m already dead.”

Michel Houellebecq, interviewed by Susannah Hunnewell for The Paris Review, 2010.